/ about

Tree of Life Productions creates independent films and commercial videos. We specialize in character-based, social issue documentaries and cost-effective commercial videos.

/ documentaries

Set for Life

Set for Life follows three Baby Boomers who struggle to recover from the devastating impact of losing their jobs during the Great Recession.It was broadcast nationally on public television by American Public Television and also won several film festivals.

/ recent work

Lyman-Lafayette

Traces the story of a sword donated to the Newport Historical Society by a descendant of Daniel Lyman, a Revolutionary War officer and a prominent resident of colonial Newport. Lyman received the sword as a gift from the Marquis de Lafayatte.The donation of the sword coincided with the 2015 visit to Newport, R.I. of L’Hermione, a reproduction of the French ship that brought Lafayette to America in 1780. Produced with Axion Media Lab.

Heldrich Conference

More than 250 national and international experts convened at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, in October 2004 for a three-day conference co-sponsored by the Federal Reserve Banks of Atlanta and Kansas City and the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development to offer their perspectives on reforming education and job training policies.